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I RAILROAD RAIL JOINT. No. 273,882. Patented Mar. 13,1883.

In, Fe )[Co UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

JOHN W. OLLIS, OF JOLIE'I, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND WILLIAM W. BISHOP AND PAUL S MITH, OF SAME PLACE.

RAILROAD-RAIL JOINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,882, dated March 13, 1883.

Application filed May 31, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may cancer-n Be it known that I, JOHN W. OLLIs, of the city of Joliet, in 111 county, and State oi'lllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad-Rail Joints, the construction and operation of which I will proceed to explain, reference being bad to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in w hich Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 an end view. v

This invention consists in the useofa sheath to inclose the two ends of two railroad-rails for the purpose of connecting them together, said sheath beingso constructed as to prevent the nuts turning off the ends of the bolts that pass through the sheath and rails tohold them on. The sheath B isconstruoted in such manner that the side that comes in contact with the web of the rail csprings out-ward away from the rail at its top, as shown by the dotted lines in the figures, and is only brought up in contact with the web of the rail by means of the bolt and nut a, as shown in Fig.1. The

continual pressure outward away from the rail 25 ot' the side of the sheath B against the bolt-- head causes agreat pressureot' the nutsagainst the web of the rail and prevents its unturning'. The bottom part of the sheath B passes under the rail and terminates in the book 0', to pre- 0 vent the bottom of the sheath from falling away from the tread of the rail when the side of the sheath is being drawn up against the web of the rail, and also to hold the two ends of the rails together and in line with each 5 other.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows, to wit:

In a railroad-rail joint, the sheath B, con- 4o structed in the form shown, and having the book 1' to attach the bottom of the sheath to the tread of the rails, as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN W. OLLIS. Witnesses i Tues. H. HUTCHINS, WM. J. HU'roHINs. 

